The Baby Thief and the Birth of a New Language
When Mercury Outruns the Sun for a Gemini New Moon
On the day the god Mercury was born, he crawled from his cradle, tiptoed past Apollo’s sunbeams, and stole fifty cows that belonged to his older brother. Apollo, the radiant god of the Sun, was stunned. His one-day-old baby brother had broken the rules, rewritten the map, and talked his way out of punishment by entertaining their father, Zeus, by playin…